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description: Opening it they found it, not only to their own amazement but to that of the quondam police guard, by no means empty. Who acts: troops. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 136

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Opening it they found it, not only to their own amazement but to that of the quondam police guard, by no means empty.

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**Who acts:** troops · **What happens:** open, find, mean, amaze · **To what, where:** box · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troops), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:13:136
# text = Opening it they found it, not only to their own amazement but to that of the quondam police guard, by no means empty.
1	Opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	amazement	amazement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	quondam	quondam	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	police	police	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	obl	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | gerund |  | box |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | troops | box |  |  |  | to troops's own amazement to that of the quondam police guard | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | by no; empty *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **amaze** |  | troops |  |  |  |  |  | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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